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Article: In Britain, more terminally ill cancer patients turning to experimental drugs
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- April 18, 2008
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When Jill Bracey Cowley was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer eight years ago, doctors told her she had two years to live. So she decided to take a gamble and try new drugs that hadn't yet been approved.
"They've utterly changed my life," said Cowley, 70. She credits the treatments with enabling her to live long enough to welcome six grandchildren into the world.
Unlike most terminally ill cancer patients, Cowley had the chance to try untested drugs. With the opening of a government-run network of experimental cancer clinics across the country this month, British doctors are now hoping to offer millions of other dying cancer patients the same chance.
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